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South London Citizens: manifesto 2021

Housing and homelessness

We want the next Mayor to:

  1. Make housing genuinely affordable
  2. Increase the supply of supported accommodation e.g. Project Malachi
  3. Make temporary accommodation temporary and improve the quality

Youth Safety

We want the next Mayor to

  1. Commit funding and powers to police scrutiny
  2. Establish a parent commissioner for London at the GLA to amplify and advocate for parent voices
  3. Commit funding and resources to tackle the issue of school exclusions

Living Wage

We want the next Mayor to :

  1. Make London the first living wage region, with the aim of winning a further £500m of increased pay for Londoners over the next 4 years
  2. Make the Greater London Authority a Living Hours employer

Welcome and Sanctuary

We want the next Mayor to:

  1. Support young Londoners to regularise their immigration status
  2. Improve access to English language (ESOL) provision in London through coordination, strategy and advocacy
  3. Conduct a review into hate crime reporting in London

Just Transition (Climate)

We want the next Mayor to:

  1. Create 60,000 good green jobs and apprenticeships
  2. Upgrade 100,000 homes to end fuel poverty by 2030

To truly transform our city it requires all of us working together. To read our commitments as civil society to the next Mayor of London and see more details on these proposals please click the link below:

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